# wos
## English
### Verb

wos
* Eye dialect spelling of was.
** 1876, Edward Everett Hale, “Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume XII, number 1, page 20:She wos real good to 'em all, she wos, ma'am.
* (Mid-Ulster) was
** 1983, William Forbes Marshall, John the Liar:But there wos John, he had his two han's up,

### Anagrams

* OSW, OWS, SOW, Sow, sow

## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

* wås

### Etymology

From Old High German waz, hwaz, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Cognate with German was, Silesian East Central German woas (was), Dutch wat, English what, Danish hvad.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔːs/, /βɔːs/, [-ɔ-], [-o-], [-oː-]

### Pronoun

wos
* (interrogative) what
    Wos gibts'n heid z'Mittåg? ― What's for lunch today?
* (relative) which (referring to the entire preceding clause)
    Sie is a guade Tänzerin, wos er bewundert. ― She is a good dancer, which he admires.
* (relative) that, which (referring to des, ois, ollas, wos/wås, nix, and neuter substantival adjectives)
    Des is nix, wos ma ned repariern ko. ― This is nothing that you can't fix.
    Er håd ois gsågt, wos er waß. ― He has told everything that he knows.
* (relative, chiefly East Central Bavarian) that, which, who, whom (referring to any term in the preceding clause)
    Synonym: (West Central) wo
    Des is de Frau, wos i gsehn håb. ― This is the woman who I saw.
    Koatn gibt's åm Schoiter, wos då hintn is. ― Tickets are available at the counter which is back there.
* (relative, East Central Bavarian) (inserted after the relative pronouns der, de, des, dem, den, dena, dera
    Synonym: (West Central) wo
    Des is de Frau, de wos i gsehn håb. ― This is the woman who I saw.
    Koatn gibt's åm Schoiter, der wos då hintn is. ― Tickets are available at the counter which is back there.
* (indefinite) something, anything
    I håb wos gfunden. ― I've found something.
* (interrogative) why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)
    Wos håst des gmåcht? ― Why on earth did you do that?

## Catawba
### Etymology

The word is related to wus, wuss (“wasp”).

### Noun

wos
* bee

## Javanese
### Romanization

wos
* Romanization of ꦮꦺꦴꦱ꧀

## Lower Sorbian
### Noun

wos f (diminutive woska)
* Superseded spelling of wós.

#### Declension
## Middle English
### Pronoun

wos
* Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)

## Mokilese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwos/

### Noun

wos
* reef

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* uurs (Mooring)
* Uurs (Sylt)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian wars, from Proto-Germanic *wazrą.

### Noun

wos m
* (Föhr-Amrum) spring

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /woːs/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wōs, from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Middle Low German wose (“foam; froth”), Old English wāse (“marsh; mire”).

#### Noun

wōs n (nominative plural wōs)
* juice, sap; moisture
** Leech Book, Leech Book, Volume I, Fiveleaf, or Cinquefoil. III.
    Wiþ ǣlces dæġes mannes tȳddernysse inneweardes, nime þonne weġbrǣdan, dō on wīn and sūp þ wōs and et þā weġbrǣdan; ðonne dēah hit wið ǣġhwylcre innancundre unhǣlo.For every days tenderness of a man inwardly, let him take then waybread, put it in wine, and sip the juice and eat the waybread; then it is good for any inward unheal (infirmity).

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Related terms

* wēsan

##### Descendants

* Middle English: wos, wose
** English: ooze, wooze

### Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

#### Noun

wōs
* genitive singular of wōh

## Tok Pisin
### Noun

wos
* sentinel